Mother Nature is playing a cruel Springtime trick. Just when the petals were opening...BAM, 3 inches of lake effect snow...and more falling!! I took other photos of ice encased hiacynths and budding magnolias covered in white flakes...beautiful at times, but ever so sad...our long-awaited spring flowers are being destroyed. Even sadder is seeing all the robins in the streets looking for food...those that migrated South for the winter are returning to find little to no food because it is buried under the snow. My Carolina Wrens are eating up my supply of mealworms fed daily...now a pregnant robin has discovered the secret garden of plenty and patiently waits with her new feathered friends for a survival handout. (This weather is supposed to continue into next week!!)

it is supposed to stay cold here til next wed with a hard frost. I wouldn't expect a hard frost right on the coast, but even a half hour in is another story.
As a Kansas friend said: "expect the price of bread to go up". However your flowers there are right pretty in the snow.
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